Stephen King’s Dark Tower series?

I read it in high school and had no problems with it and enjoyed it immensely. However if you’re not getting anything out of it by all means put it down.

I believe they can be bought cheap at most dollar stores.

Oh man, Catch-22 is one of my all time favorite books but I enjoyed it from the start.

I think if you’re really struggling to get through a book it is completely fine to stop reading the book.

The pointlessness is the point. It’s an absurd novel. If you’re not enjoying it though then there isn’t much point in finishing.

For what it’s worth, the last half of the book brings it all home and is much darker than the first half. Just don’t beat yourself up if you can’t closely follow the timeline. I am not sure anyone can.

I didn't pick up any vitriol. You're mostly just making yourself look super judgey, so congrats on letting us all know you don't respect writers.

I think this is also another case where an article title misrepresents what the article is supposed to be about. There are plenty of people who don't read books for understandable reasons (like a learning disability or preference for audio so they can layer that over, say, long drives) but are still intellectually curious in other ways. That's a whole other discussion than people who literally argue against reading books simply because it's long-form media because they only find value in things that have been 'optimized'/shortened to their personal preferences (like the six-paragraph blog post comment, good lord lol).

I had the same problem but persevered and I'm glad I did as it is one of the best books I've ever read. I think my problem was that I grew frustrated trying to follow a linear plot that wasn't there. Once I accepted that and stopped worrying about it I really began to enjoy the book.

There is a new book out called “Agatha Christie - Marple” in which 12 women writers write Miss Marple short stories in a combination of their style and Agatha Christie’s style. If you like Miss Marple, or Agatha Christie, you will really enjoy this book.

It's kinda intended to mirror an individual's experience of war: like nothing really happens, but stuff is kinda happening and then nothing happens, but some people aren't there anymore and nothing happens and nothing is happening and then all of a sudden everything happens.

Not everything is for everyone, if you don't like it don't force it.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is her 6th novel and her third with Poirot. I disagree. I think it should be read early but not first.

Edit: actually I don’t disagree. Read in chron order and you’ll read Ackroyd third or fourth depending on the list.

When you read the book out loud, what happens?

When the book is read to you (say, an audiobook), what happens?

It's there anything else going on? Do the words just look like squiggles? Are you tired and sleepy? Do the words look like other words? Is it blurry? Do your eyes hurt? Does your brain hurt? Etc.

We'd like to help but things are going in the direction of "you have a very specific reading comprehension issue or disability" which means that the things that will actually help you are going to be the answers and tools for that very specific thing that you have.

A solid next step might be to find some online screening tools for different disabilities and see if any of them apply to you. Or, better yet, just tell a teacher. They should have programs that can help you figure out what's going on and then get you very specific support for that issue

Please don't feel shy or bad, everyone is different and that's ok. You're not dumb, you're actually pretty smart!

Unfortunately, the only way to know whether you should stop reading is to finish the book

Yes I was gonna say, taking some notes could really help.

I love Sylvia Plath and I love the Bell Jar, but reading it always puts me in a really weird place. It's all just way too uncomfortably relatable for me.

Well, I get your points, and every sentence could be made into an essay. And they have been discussed vastly, my argument is that there are valid points on both sides, this dialogue has been brought up many times, dialectics will take place and a middle ground will be either enforced or agreed. Intellectualism and pragmatism are valid, necessary and full of friction.

I spent way too much fucken time on this novel and at the end it was not worth it. Its so fucken weird like theres no sensible story to it. Maybe i dont understand satire but fuck this novel was a waste of time

I didn’t finish it. If you’re that far into a book and don’t like it there’s nothing compelling you to go on. I found the book somewhat amusing for a while until… I didn’t. It did feel like nothing was really happening story wise. The film adaptation starring Alan Arkin is pretty good, would recommend.

I LOVED the book, but I definitely had some trouble getting into the first 100 or so pages.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t force yourself to finish it.

If you're not enjoying it then there is no shame in dropping it and picking up something else.

I got off to a slow start with this book too, but it got better as I went along.

I'm an outlier because I prefer the Miss Marple books over Poirot. Some of my suggestions are 4:50 From Paddington, At Bertram's Hotel, and Murder At The Vicarage.

I also enjoyed her Tommy and Tuppence series a lot.

I'm a big fan of that golden age of detective novels. Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey, they're all so good.

And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile.

Any of the more famous ones

Keep the timeline in your head by number of missions needed to fly.Story is told in flashbacks with more revealed each time. The plot comes toghether in the end.
One of my favs that I used to re-read yearly.

This is probably my favorite Christie novel - if you like this one, try Murder on The Blue Train too.